Author: Lillian Nickel VetterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Nickel's Worth
Author: Lillian Nickel VetterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk
Author: Robert J. HastingsPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809313051
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois. "People started writing me from all over the country," Hastings notes. "And all said much the same: 'You were writing about my family, as much as your own. That's how I remember the 1930s, too.'" As he proves time and again in this book, Hastings is a natural storyteller who can touch upon the detail that makes the tale both poignant and universal. He brings to life a period that marked every man, woman, and child who lived through it even as that national experience fades into the past.
A Nickel's Worth of Lead
Author: Orlando RigoniThe Nickels, Dimes, and Dollars Book
Author: Ellen SabinPublisher: Watering Can Press
ISBN: 9780975986899
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Learn to make smart decisions about how to spend, share, save, earn, and grow your money.
The Coin Counting Book
Author: Rozanne Lanczak WilliamsPublisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 160734176X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm… A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with THE COIN COUNTING BOOK. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.
Million Dollar Nickels
Author: Paul MontgomeryPublisher: Zyrus Press
ISBN: 9780974237183
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Framed in the backdrop of a nationwide media frenzy and a public mad with the hope of finding the multi-million dollar coin, this is the story of America's most eccentric and famous collectors, persistent reporters searching for the truth, shameless profiteers, and agents of the Smithsonian Institute desperate to stay above the fray. Enterprising collectors spared no expense over the decades advertising to purchase a 1913 Liberty Head nickel, prompting generations of collectors to search cans of coins and old collections they inherited, all for the hope of finding the prized 1913 Liberty Head nickel. In the end, it was an anonymous heiress with an old envelope, upon which was written the word fake, that held the truth. With that envelope and the coin inside, six of the world's most respected coin experts sat in a small room under the vigilant watch of armed guards. Few expected what they found. And what they found rewrote numismatic history...
A Nickel's Worth of Penny Candy
Author: Karen FisherPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 142696854X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A preacher and his wife take in an orphan off the street. They already have five children at home. What would it matter for one more to join the happy group? What more mischief could this child get into?
Nickel's Luck
Author: MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734116205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In the wake of disaster, would you leave your family to fulfill an old promise to a stranger? Born with a permanent grin and natural charm, young Ryder Wheeler wanted to be a Pony Express rider just like his dime novel hero. In a coastal Texas town in the 1870s, it isn't easy to turn cowboy, so Ryder relies on what he has-a strong will, a nickel's worth of luck, and an inclination to take on any dare. Adored by all, he gains notoriety as the "luck child" of Indianola. When Ryder's abusive father goes too far, a hard-fisted cowboy intervenes, offering him a deal with one condition: He must leave his beloved town of Indianola behind. After peddling his luck for so long, will he make it as a cowboy at the Middle C Ranch? As Ryder faces the consequences of his decision, the Mistress-the ocean Ryder loves to hate-tries once more to claim him. Can young Ryder best the storms in his path? Or will he lose his dream-and his town-forever? Brimming with superstitious sailors, rugged cowboys, and catastrophic events, Nickel's Luck is a coming-of-age tale that takes readers on an epic journey.
Before the Nickelodeon
Author: Charles MusserPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
Nickel and Dimed
Author: Barbara EhrenreichPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429926643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.